Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

Espo:  Rank 17, 242 Shaman wins, 0 Rumble Run wins

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News

Balance Changes are live

• 5 card changes were announced and pushed live in the time we’ve been gone.
  • Wild Growth now costs 3, up from 2
  • Nourish now costs 6, up from 5
  • Level Up! Now costs 6, up from 5
  • Saronite Chain Gang now summons another Saronite Chain Gang, instead of a copy of the minion.
  • Leeching Poison now costs 1, down from 2, and only gives Lifesteam for 1 turn

Arena changes are live

• Appearance rates for Rastakhan’s Rumble cards now have a +50% appearance rate
• The following cards will be available once again in Arena
  • Druid
    • Savagery
    • Soul of the Forest
    • Mark of Nature
  • Hunter
    • Starving Buzzard
    • Timber Wolf
    • Snipe
  • Priest
    • Mind Blast
    • Lightwell
    • Inner Fire
  • Shaman
    • Dust Devil
    • Totemic Might
    • Ancestral Healing
    • Windspeaker
  • Warlock
    • Sacrificial Pact
    • Sense Demons
    • Succubus
  • Warrior
    • Warsong Commander
    • Charge
    • Rampage
• And Mind Control Tech will no longer be available.
• Also the following cards will remain unavailable:
  • Hero Cards
  • Quests
  • Whizbang the Wonderful
  • Vicious Fledgling
  • Ancient Watcher
  • Humongous Razorleaf
  • Odd/Even cards

Hearthstone Wild Open returns

• Qualifiers will take place from January 1 through January 30
• The Playoffs are on February 16
• The finals will be on February 23rd.
• Qualify for your region’s playoffs by hitting Top 100 on ladder for the month of January
• 1st prize – $11,000, 2nd $7,000, 3-4 $3,000, 5-8 $1,500
• Total prize pool of $30,000

2018 All Star Invitational Controversy

https://thegamehaus.com/hearthstone-2018-all-star-invitational-controversy/2018/12/26/

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Espo Mode

The Gift Exchange

Great Father is dropping crates on the battlefield! Get a gift each time you smash your opponent’s crate… or your own!

How it Works

• Build a custom deck using cards from your own collection.
• At the start of your turn, provided there is not a Winter’s Veil Gift on your side of the field, Greatfather Winter will drop one off.
• Destroying a Gift will give you a Stolen Winter’s Veil Gift.
• Stolen Winter’s Veil Gift allows you to Discover a card from the class of the player the originating Gift minion came from.
  • You are only able to receive cards which initially cost at least 5 mana.
  • The cost of the card is reduced by 5 mana.
  • You are unable to Discover weapons.
• If you obtain a Stolen Gift through a card like Mind Vision, it will only pull cards from the neutral set.
• You have a chance of seeing Hardpacked Snowballs in the Discover mechanic.

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Warrior

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Next Week : Druid

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Outro

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